“... As Valantasis rightly points out, however, the ethnic and geographical scene-setting becomes irrelevant, and the lamb takes centre stage. The key point is that human beings, like the lamb, are on their way to death (60.3): ‘this world is a corpse eater’ which will consume people (Gos. Phil. 73,19–22). The disciples thus need to act to avert this fate, so as not to ‘taste death’. As in GTh 59, there is chance of salvation while one is alive (60.4) [...] This is reinforced by the concluding application in 60.6. The disciples are warned that they must not suffer the same fate as this lamb: they must not fall into the realm of death and be destroyed. In the realm of life, the disciples are invulnerable (just as in 60.4 the lamb cannot be eaten while alive). If the disciples succumb to death, however, they are liable to be consumed like a slaughtered lamb. [...] 60.6 So that you do not become a corpse and are eaten. The alternative to ‘life’ and ‘a place inside rest’ is consumption. This is used elsewhere in Thomas’s imagery: it is the curse of the man to be eaten by the lion in GTh 7.2, and the birds (implicitly) and the worms explicitly eat up the seed sown in GTh 9. ...”